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TIL thirty Indonesian women colonized Madagascar over one thousand years ago

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kOXpe TIL that Carlos Kaiser was a professional soccer player signed for many clubs without having played a single professional game. He "wanted to be a footballer, but did not want to play football",would sign short contracts based on recommendations of his football friends and fake injuries!
GY5g TIL that between 1909 and 1964, more than 20,000 people California were declared “unfit to propagate” and were forced to be sterilized against their will for “race betterment”.
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